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Allegiance - A New American Musical

Friday, September 7 - Sunday, October 28

Music and Lyrics by Jay Kuo Book by Marc Acito, Jay Kuo and Lorenzo ThioneDirected by Stafford Arima

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ALLEGIANCE – A NEW AMERICAN MUSICAL is an epic story of family, love and patriotism set during the Japanese American internment of World War II. Sixty years after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a chance meeting forces WWII veteran Sam Kimura (television and film star George Takei) to remember his family's relocation from their California farm to the Heart Mountain internment camp. As they struggle to adjust to their new home, Young Sam (Telly Leung – Godspell, "Glee") and his sister Kei (Lea Salonga, Tony Award winner for Miss Saigon) find themselves torn between loyalty to their family and allegiance to their country. With its moving score, ALLEGIANCE takes audiences on a journey into our nation's history through the eyes of one American family.

Run time: Two hours and 15 minutes, including one 15-minute intermission.

BACKGROUND ON THE JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
The internment of Japanese Americans during World War II is an oft-overlooked and shameful chapter of American history. In the aftermath of Japan’s surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt authorized, through Executive Order 9066, the forced evacuation of approximately 120,000 persons of Japanese descent from the West Coast of the U.S. and their involuntary internment in 10 camps on American soil. About two-thirds of the internees were American citizens.

Although many reasons were given at the time for the internment, all of them have been discredited as based in prejudice, animus and war-time hysteria. No U.S. citizen or alien of Japanese descent was ever charged with, let alone found guilty of, any act of espionage or sabotage, even though the U.S. government had insisted these concerns underlay its egregious policy. Decades later, the U.S. apologized for its actions and provided certain monetary reparations to surviving internees.

You can learn more by following the links below to organizations related to these topics.

Densho
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, President Franklin Roosevelt cited military necessity as the basis for incarcerating 120,000 Japanese Americans—adults and children, immigrants and citizens alike. Decades later a congressional commission found the justification of military necessity to be false. Learn the true reasons for this unprecedented denial of civil liberties.

Go For Broke National Education Center
The 442nd Regimental Combat Team. The motto of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team was "go for broke." It's a gambling term that means risking everything on one great effort to win big. The soldiers of the 442nd needed to win big. They were Nisei—American-born sons of Japanese immigrants. They fought two wars: the Germans in Europe and the prejudice in America. The 442nd Regimental Combat Team was the most decorated unit for its size and length of service in the entire history of the U.S. Military.

San Diego Internment History (U-T San Diego, May 19, 2012)
The war devastated San Diego's Japanese community, especially the Issei, the first-generation immigrants. From the 1920s until 1942, the intersection of Fifth and Island was the heart of a busy Japantown. With internment, all of this district's Japanese-owned businesses—nearly 60—vanished. Only a few reappeared. "In many ways, it broke down the community," said Susan Hasegawa, a professor of history at San Diego City College. "The community as a core and the Issei that held it together were very much scattered and dispersed.”

"The Tag Project:" Wendy Maruyama, San Diego Artist
All Japanese Americans from the West Coast were rounded up in 1942 and each were issued a tag and an ID number designating their destination: one of several internment camps, all in desolate, deserted areas of the United States. The most haunting and striking photos were of the families wearing tags at the various assembly centers before being shipped off by train to these remote areas. Maruyama was taken by the physical weight of these tags when they were completed and hung, despite appearing to be light and airy. For this project, it was necessary to make all 120,000 tags, to represent every Japanese American who was sent to the 10 major camps. Maruyama feels that the sheer numbers and the scale of these tags will convey to all who view them that the internment was a massive project that was to affect an entire culture of people and their future generations.

“The Tag Project” — An art installation by artist Wendy Maruyama
features groupings of ID tags resembling those worn by Japanese Americans as they were sent to the internment camps. Approximately 11 feet tall and weighing more than 100 pounds, each grouping contains enough tags to represent every person in one of the 10 U.S. internment camps. The installation features three of the 10 groupings and is located in the upper lobby of the Old Globe Theatre. Admittance to this art exhibit is included in the ticket price to Allegiance and is available for viewing 45 minutes prior to showtime. Additionally, the exhibit will be open to the public on Tuesdays from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Allegiance: A San Diego Perspective —
A Special Museum Exhibit
The Old Globe and the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego present a museum exhibit throughout the run of Allegiance about the history of Japanese Americans who lived in San Diego prior to World War II and their removal to the internment camps. The exhibit contains photographs, artifacts and materials about the internment and how it affected San Diego County and its citizens. Located in the San Diego Museum of Man Annex directly adjacent to The Old Globe, the exhibit is free to the public and will be open two hours prior to each performance on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturdays; from noon to 7 p.m. on Sundays; and from noon to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays as part of Balboa Park's Free Tuesdays.

Cast

Ensemble

Katie Boren

Katie Boren is thrilled to join this extraordinary company in the telling of such an important story that needs to be told. Her credits include Lysistrata Jones, The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee, Avenue Q and Miss Saigon. Ms. Boren is a member of AEA and is a proud graduate of Ithaca College. To my family, friends and D, to whom I owe everything, I send you endless love and gratitude. To Minna, I thank you for keeping my dreams possible. To Dustin, you are my favorite unlikely proposition. To Mom and Dad, I owe it all.

Ensemble

Jon Jon Briones

Jon Jon Briones was born in the Philippines and went to London to join the original cast of Miss Saigon. He has played The Engineer in Miss Saigon in Germany, U.S. Tour, U.K. Tour, Asian Tour, Philippines and the closing season in London. Recently he played the title character in The Romance of Magno Rubio ([Inside] the Ford, LA Weekly Theater Award nomination for Leading Male Performance, Ovation Award nomination for Lead Actor in a Play). His favorite theatre credits include Fredrik in A Little Night Music (East West Players), Yellow Face (Center Theater Group), Lukas in Peregrinasyon (Ma-Yi Theater Company), Tateh in Ragtime, Enjolras in Les Misérables and Laertes in Hamlet. His favorite television credits include Cosme Caliyag on “Las Vegas” (recurring), Asian Elvis on “Sons of Anarchy,” “Miami Medical,” “Monk” and “Southland.” His recent film credits include Mr. Fan in Model Home, Father Mena in Blood Ransom, Raul in Nico’s Sampaguita and Genie in Sinbad: The Fifth Voyage.

Ensemble

Geno Carr

has previously appeared at The Old Globe in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (2011-2013) and Allegiance – A New American Musical. His other San Diego credits include The Servant of Two Masters (Craig Noel Award nomination), The Foreigner, miXtape, and The Music Man (Lamb’s Players Theatre, Associate Artist), Assassins, Parade, Little Shop of Horrors, and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company, Resident Artist), I Love You Because and A Christmas Carol (2008-2009) (North Coast Repertory Theatre), A Waltz Dream (Lyric Opera San Diego), and Next to Normal (San Diego Musical Theatre). Mr. Carr has appeared Off Broadway in Bush Wars and on the national tours of Phantom, The Buddy Holly Story, and Grease. His favorite regional credits include Leo Bloom in The Producers, Harold Nichols in The Full Monty, Sparky in Forever Plaid, the title role in Bat Boy, Smee in Peter Pan, Feste in Twelfth Night, Buddy Fidler in City of Angels, Luther Billis in South Pacific, Man #2 in I Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change, and Gus Esmond Jr. in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (BroadwayWorld Award nomination). He holds an M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from Sarah Lawrence College and a dual B.A. in Music and Theatre Arts from Hartwick College. GenoCarr.com.

Ensemble

Karl Josef Co

Karl Josef Co is beyond thrilled to be a part of Allegiance’s world premiere at The Old Globe, having made his professional theatre debut in last year’s workshop. He was most recently seen as Thuy in Miss Saigon (Fulton Theatre). His other credits include Costs of Living (Stephen Schwartz/ASCAP workshop co-starring Telly Leung), Suites by Sondheim concert with Lea Salonga and Paolo Montalban (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts) and The King and I with Lorenzo Lamas (North Shore Music Theatre). Praise be to God. Love you Mom, Dad and Mico for your unending support. My biggest thanks to Jay, Lorenzo, Stafford, Lynne, Craig and the whole production team for this amazing journey. To this beautiful cast, I am so honored to be surrounded by such inspiringly brilliant artists. Thanks to Joel, Michael and Christopher at CGF. He is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan — Go Blue.

Ensemble

Marc de la Cruz

Marc de la Cruz is thrilled to join the Allegiance family and make his first appearance at The Old Globe. His theatre credits include the award-winning Prison Dancer (New York Musical Theatre Festival 2012, Outstanding Ensemble Performance), Disney’s High School Musical (First National Tour), Where Elephants Weep (Cambodia), David Byrne’s Here Lies Love (The Public Theater), The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and Making Tracks (San Jose Repertory Theatre), Miss Saigon (North Carolina Theatre), Pippin (The 5th Avenue Theatre) and The Wedding Banquet (Village Theatre and Asia Tour).

Ensemble

MaryAnn Hu

MaryAnn Hu has television and film credits that include SooLin on the NBC sitcom “Whoopi,” “Law & Order,” Falling for Grace and the upcoming film De Loba. Her Broadway credits include Bloody Mary understudy in the original cast of Lincoln Center Theater’s revival of South Pacific, as well as having played the role on the First National Tour. She also appeared on Broadway and in the National Tour of Miss Saigon. Her Off Broadway and regional credits include Cordelia in Falsettoland (National Asian American Theatre Company), The Audience (Transport Group), The Beautiful Warrior (Vineyard Theatre), The Yellow Wood directed by BD Wong (New York Musical Theatre Festival), Heading East, Mrs. Mullin in Carousel directed by Baayork Lee (National Asian Artists Project), Tuptim in The King and I and Song of Singapore. Her workshop credits include Bruce Lee: Journey to the West directed by Bartlett Sher, Frank Wildhorn’s Tears of Heaven, originating the role of Madame Du in Maury Yeston’s Peony Pavilion, Please Don’t Eat the Daisies and The Wedding Singer.

Swing

Jennifer Hubilla

Jennifer Hubilla earned a B.F.A. in Musical Theatre from CSU Fullerton. Upon graduation, she was immediately cast as the lead role of Kim in the U.S. Tour of Miss Saigon. She was then invited by Sir Cameron Mackintosh to join the U.K. Tour, where she again played the role of Kim. The U.K. became her home for the next four years where she worked as a singer, actress and voice-over artist. Her other theatre credits include Aladdin, Tea, A Little Night Music, Marry Me a Little, Songs for a New World and The Fantasticks, among others. Her voice-over credits include Flashbacks of a Fool starring Daniel Craig and Wild Child starring Emma Roberts. She played the lead in several short films, one of them titled By the Water’s Edge, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival. Ms. Hubilla also recently did a KFC commercial that is now on air.

Frankie Suzuki

Michael K. Lee

Michael K. Lee has appeared on Broadway as Kayama in Pacific Overtures, Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar, Steve in Rent and Thuy in Miss Saigon. His international credits include Chris in Miss Saigon in Korea, Where Elephants Weep in Cambodia, They’re Playing Our Song opposite Lea Salonga in the Philippines and A Twist of Fate opposite Laura Michelle Kelly in Singapore. In the U.S., he has successfully broken down traditional casting barriers, performing Tommy in The Who’s Tommy (Seattle Footlight Award for Best Actor in a Musical), Jesus and Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar and Aladdin in Disney’s Aladdin: A Musical Spectacular. His other U.S. credits include The Last Five Years (2009 Ovation Award nomination for Lead Actor in a Musical), The King and I, Making Tracks, Heading East, Mame (Hollywood Bowl), The Wedding Banquet, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Could It Be Magic? The Barry Manilow Songbook, The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Beijing Spring and Sweeney Todd. He is a proud member of Actors’ Equity and a graduate of Stanford University.

Sammy Kimura

Telly Leung

Telly Leung most recently appeared in the Broadway revival of Godspell. His other Broadway credits include Flower Drum Song (2002 revival), Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (2005 revival) and the final company of Rent. He originated the role of Boq in the Chicago company of Wicked. Favorite credits include Angel in Rent directed by Neil Patrick Harris (Hollywood Bowl), Song Liling in M. Butterfly (Philadelphia Theatre Company), Give It Up! aka Lysistrata Jones (world premiere, Dallas Theater Center), Godspell (Paper Mill Playhouse), Bernstein: Mass (Baltimore Symphony, The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall), Harold Bride in Titanic and Barnaby in Hello, Dolly! (The Muny), Simon in Jesus Christ Superstar (Music Circus), Thuy in Miss Saigon (Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera) and Lun Tha in The King and I with Lou Diamond Philips (North Carolina Theatre). Mr. Leung has been featured on the recordings for Godspell (Sh-K-Boom Records), Flower Drum Song (DRG Records), Pacific Overtures (PS Classics), Wall to Wall Sondheim (Live from Symphony Space), Dear Edwina (PS Classics) and the Grammy Award-nominated Bernstein: Mass with Marin Alsop (Sony/Naxos). His television and film credits include “Glee” (Wes, Dalton Academy Warblers), “Law & Order: Criminal Intent” and Rent: Filmed Live on Broadway. Mr. Leung holds a B.F.A. from the Carnegie Mellon University School of Drama. He recently released his first solo album, I’ll Cover You, on the Yellow Sound Label.

Ensemble

Brandon Joel Maier

Brandon Joel Maier is thrilled to be making his debut at The Old Globe in Allegiance. His San Diego regional work includes Leo Frank in Parade and Seymour in Little Shop of Horrors (Cygnet Theatre Company), Emmett Forrest in Legally Blonde (Moonlight Stage Productions) and Chip Tolentino in The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee and I Love You Because (North Coast Repertory Theatre). His directing credits include Little Women, Rumors, Les Misérables and I Love You Because (assistant director). Mr. Maier also conceived, compiled and directed the San Diego State University fairy-tale revues WISH: A Musical Revue and WISH II: Villains & Sidekicks. Mr. Maier received his B.A. in Theatre and M.F.A. in Musical Theatre from SDSU. He is currently a member of the faculty at his alma mater.

Mike Masaoka

Paolo Montalban

Paolo Montalban most recently starred in Honk! at Two River Theater Company. His Broadway credits include Manjiro in Pacific Overtures and Lun Tha (understudied and performed) in The King and I. He has appeared Off Broadway in The Two Gentlemen of Verona (New York Shakespeare Festival) and The Romance of Magno Rubio (Culture Project). His regional credits include Flower Drum Song, Nero, The Boys from Syracuse and The Long Season. Mr. Montalban is best known for playing the Prince in the ABC/Wonderful World of Disney movie musical Cinderella opposite Brandy. His other television and film credits include Kung Lao in the TNT series “Mortal Kombat: Conquest,” supporting and featured roles in “One Life To Live,” “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit,” Camelot for “Live from Lincoln Center,” American Adobo, The Great Raid and Just Wright. He performed as a guest artist with the San Francisco Symphony and as a soloist in the Suites by Sondheim concert at Alice Tully Hall.

Tatsuo Kimura

Paul Nakauchi

Paul Nakauchi, the son of camp survivors, has a bachelor’s degree in music and began his theatre career in the National Tour of The King and I with Yul Brynner. He understudied and performed the role of The King of Siam on Broadway in the 1996 revival opposite Donna Murphy. He also played The King on London’s West End with Elaine Paige. Most recently he toured Asia in the Broadway Asia production of The King and I, recreating the same role. He toured the U.S. in the First National Tour of Miss Saigon understudying and playing the role of The Engineer. His movie credits include The Great Race and Dark Metropolis, and he has been seen on television in “ER,” “The Young and the Restless,” “General Hospital,” “Saturday Night Live,” and “Knots Landing.” His voice inhabits characters in the animated features The Invincible Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Alpha and Omega and the television cartoons “Avatar: The Last Airbender” and “Batman: The Brave and the Bold,” as well as numerous video games including Cars 2, Call of Duty: World at War and the soon-to-be-released Lost Planet 3, to name a few. He is excited to be making his Globe debut.

Ensemble

Kürt Norby

Kürt Norby has previously appeared at The Old Globe in the world premiere of Allegiance – A New American Musical and Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! His regional credits include the world premieres of Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin and Zhivago (La Jolla Playhouse), Company, Assassins, Man of La Mancha and Sweeney Todd (Cygnet Theatre Company), miXtape, Leaving Iowa, Room Service, Hello, Dolly!, The Voysey Inheritance and The Winslow Boy (Lamb’s Players Theatre), Evita, The Desert Song and Bye Bye Birdie (Welk Resorts Theatre), Beauty and the Beast (Moonlight Amphitheater), Suds: The Rocking ‘60s Musical Soap Opera, Urinetown, Fiddler on the Roof and The Scarlet Pimpernel (Starlight Musical Theatre) and Miss Saigon (Fullerton Civic Light Opera). His film credits include 29th and Gay, U R Pre-Approved and Rubix Cube Dinner. He received his B.A. in Drama from UC Irvine. Love to Kyle. www.kurtnorby.com.

Swing

Conrad Ricamora

Conrad Ricamora is making his Globe debut. Regionally he has appeared at Walnut Street Theatre, Prince Music Theater, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Williamstown Theatre Festival, North Carolina Shakespeare Festival and Clarence Brown Theatre Company. Mr. Ricamora just played Ninoy Aquino in a two-month collaboration with David Byrne and Alex Timbers in the creation of the new show Here Lies Love. He will continue this work next March in the full-scale production at The Public Theater. He also appears in Talladega Nights with Will Ferrell. www.conradricamora.com.

Kei Kimura

Lea Salonga

Lea Salonga is a Filipina singer/actress best known for originating the role of Kim in the West End production of Miss Saigon and bringing it to Broadway, winning the Tony and Olivier Awards, among others. She was the first Asian to play Eponine in Les Misérables on Broadway, returned to the show in 2007 as Fantine and reprised the role for the sold-out 25th anniversary concert in London. Ms. Salonga wowed audiences and critics in her first ever cabaret show at New York’s famed Café Carlyle in 2010 and returned in 2011 for another engagement. In August 2011, she released a live version of her 2010 concert, “Lea Salonga: The Journey So Far,” and it rose to #3 on the iTunes Jazz charts. Honored with an appointment as a United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Goodwill Ambassador in October of 2010, Lea has vowed to act as an advocate for the Youth and United Nations Global Alliance initiative. Ms. Salonga’s feature film credits include the singing voice of Princess Jasmine in Aladdin and Fa Mulan in Mulan and Mulan II. In honor of her portrayal of the beloved princesses, Disneyland bestowed upon Ms. Salonga the honor of Disney Legend in the summer of 2011. She dedicates her performance in Allegiance to the Hayashida and Katekaru clans. www.leasalonga.com.

Sam Kimura, Ojii-san

George Takei

George Takei and his family, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were unjustly incarcerated behind the barbed-wire enclosures of United States internment camps with the outbreak of World War II. Mr. Takei spent most of his childhood at Camp Rohwer in Arkansas and at Camp Tule Lake in Northern California. At the end of the war, Mr. Takei and his family returned to his native Los Angeles where Mr. Takei graduated from Los Angeles High School and received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from UCLA. Mr. Takei’s acting career has spanned more than five decades with more than 40 feature films and hundreds of television roles to his credit. He is best known for portraying Mr. Sulu in the “Star Trek” television and film series. Mr. Takei’s theatrical credits include Shimon Wincelberg’s Undertow (Edinburgh Festival Fringe), Philip Kan Gotanda’s The Wash (Manhattan Theatre Club and Mark Taper Forum), Frank Chin’s Year of the Dragon (The American Place Theatre), Fly Blackbird! (Billy Rose Theatre and Metro Theater), Snow White (Brighton Dome), Aladdin (The Hexagon Theatre in Reading, England and The Central Theatre in Chatham, England), Stephen Sondheim’s Pacific Overtures (Loft Theatre) and Peter Shaffer’s Equus (East West Players). In March 2012, Mr. Takei performed in an all-star reading of 8 by Dustin Lance Black and directed by Rob Reiner at Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles. Mr. Takei is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. He shares a Grammy nomination with Leonard Nimoy in the Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording category. He has a star on Hollywood Boulevard’s Walk of Fame, and his signature and handprints are in cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.

Ensemble

Ann Sanders

Ann Sanders has appeared on Broadway as Belle in Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, Christmas Eve in Avenue Q and most recently in Leap of Faith. Internationally she made her debut as Ellen in Cameron Mackintosh’s Miss Saigon and was seen in the National Tour of Lincoln Center Theater’s South Pacific. Off Broadway she portrayed the role of Trina in the National Asian American Theatre Company’s production of Falsettoland. Her regional credits include roles in The King and I with Lou Diamond Phillips, Hair, Carousel, Man of La Mancha, Showboat, The Marvelous Wonderettes and It’s a Grand Night for Singing. Her television credits include CBS’s “Unforgettable” and “As the World Turns,” Showtime’s “The Big C,” ABC’s “All My Children” and Disney’s “Johnny and the Sprites.” As a soloist she has performed at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Symphony Space in New York and Carnegie Hall.

Ensemble

Jill Townsend

is thrilled to be back at The Old Globe having last performed here in the world premiere of Allegiance – A New American Musical. Most recently she played Lina/Mitzi/Barb in North Coast Repertory Theatre’s production of Romance/Romance and has been working on and off stage for her family’s theatre company, San Diego Musical Theatre. Onstage at SDMT, local audiences may remember her as Kim MacAfee in Bye Bye Birdie, Val in A Chorus Line, and Judy Haynes in the annual production of Irving Berlin’s White Christmas. Her other favorite roles include Winnie Tate in Annie Get Your Gun and Patty Simcox in Grease (Music Circus), Miss Dorothy in Thoroughly Modern Millie and Eileen in the West Coast premiere of I Love a Piano (Musical Theatre West), Columbia in Rocky Horror Picture Show: A Tribute (Universal Studios Hollywood), The Mistress in Evita (Fullerton Civic Light Opera), Luisa in The Fantasticks (North Coast Repertory Theatre), and touring the country in the national tours of A Chorus Line and Camelot. jillandrobert.com.

Hannah Campbell

Allie Trimm

Allie Trimm previously appeared at the Globe as Nora in Brighton Beach Memoirs and Phyllis Who in Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Her Broadway credits include Kim MacAfee in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s 2009 revival of Bye Bye Birdie. Prior to that, she made her critically acclaimed Broadway debut as Patrice in Jason Robert Brown’s musical 13. Her favorite regional credits include Patrice in 13 (Goodspeed Musicals), Mary Lennox in The Secret Garden (Lamb’s Players Theatre) and The Will Rogers Follies and Annie Get Your Gun (Moonlight Stage Productions). Ms. Trimm has participated in a number of readings and workshops including Sweet Valley High, Pregnancy Pact, Allegiance and The Water. Her film and television credits include Disney’s Prom, “30 Rock” and “Private Practice.” She will be attending Stanford University in the fall of 2013. www.allietrimm.com.

Ensemble

Kay Trinidad

Kay Trinidad has appeared on Broadway as Aquata in the original cast of The Little Mermaid. Her Off Broadway credits include Diane in the original New York cast of Bare, The Roar of the Greasepaint – the Smell of the Crowd and Martha and Kit in Ninja: The Musical. Her regional and National Tour credits include Seussical the Musical, The King and I, Making Tracks and Bye Bye Birdie. She can be heard as Marcy Park on the Stage Stars recording of The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. She has also appeared in the film March! She trained at New York University’s Lee Strasberg Theatre & Film Institute at the Tisch School of the Arts. Ms. Trinidad thanks her family and friends for all of their love and support and is grateful for all of God’s blessings. Thank you for your unending support Mom, Daddy, Ate Chris and Apey. www.kaytrinidad.com.

Ensemble

Scott Watanabe

Scott Watanabe just ended a five-plus-year run in Phantom – The Las Vegas Spectacular. He was also featured in the Broadway, Los Angeles and Toronto productions of The Phantom of the Opera. His other Broadway credits include Pacific Overtures. His New York credits include Kismet and Candide. Regionally he has been seen as The Engineer in Miss Saigon, Padre in Man of La Mancha, Charlie in Annie Get Your Gun, Captain Lesgate in Dial M for Murder, Ito in Mame, Candide, Camelot, Kayama in Pacific Overtures (San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle nomination for Best Actor), The Prince and the Pauper, Franklin Shepard in Merrily We Roll Along, Evita, Pasquale in The Most Happy Fella, Chess, Jake in Paint Your Wagon, Lun Tha in The King and I. His television credits include “Law & Order: Criminal Intent.”

Team

Book

Marc Acito

Marc Acito wrote the book and additional lyrics for the Globe’s world premiere production of A Room with a View. Mr. Acito’s play Birds of a Feather, which tells the true story of the nationwide controversy caused by gay penguins in the Central Park Zoo, won the Helen Hayes Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical for its world premiere at The Hub Theatre. Birds of a Feather will appear next at Diversionary Theatre. Mr. Acito will also return to the Hub to create a stage monologue adaptation of his first novel, How I Paid for College: A Novel of Sex, Theft, Friendship and Musical Theater, which won the Ken Kesey Award for Fiction, was Editors’ Choice by The New York Times and was a Top Teen Pick by the American Library Association. Translated into five languages, it also inspired a sequel, Attack of the Theater People. A former professional opera singer, Mr. Acito regularly performs “singing commentaries” on National Public Radio’s “All Things Considered” and has written about theatre for The New York Times, Playbill and American Theatre. A product of the musical theatre program at Carnegie Mellon University, Mr. Acito graduated from Colorado College, which in 2009 awarded him an honorary doctorate. A book doctor to writers of all mediums, Mr. Acito teaches story structure at New York University. www.MarcAcito.com.

Music, Lyrics and Book

Jay Kuo

Jay Kuo marks his fourth musical with Allegiance. His composing career began at Stanford where he wrote and produced Upwardly Mobile, a coming-of-age story. Mr. Kuo’s second musical comedy, Insignificant Others, played from 2006-2008 in San Francisco at the New Conservatory Theatre Center, Zeum and Theatre 39 and won the Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle Award for Best Original Script. His third work, Worlds Apart, about star-crossed lovers in the cultural divide, performed in concert at San Francisco’s Magic Theatre in late 2006 and in New York City at New World Stages in 2008. Mr. Kuo has been part of the producing teams of many Broadway shows and national tours with an emphasis on the use of social media. He received his J.D. from UC Berkeley and is an appellate litigator admitted to practice in California and before the 9th Circuit and U.S. Supreme Courts.

Book

Lorenzo Thione

Lorenzo Thione is proud and excited for the world premiere at The Old Globe of Allegiance, on which he began working in 2008 alongside friend and composer Jay Kuo following an encounter with George Takei, whose experience in the internment camps inspired them to write a musical about this dark and mostly unknown chapter of American history. Lorenzo is also a serial entrepreneur, theatre producer and community activist and was the co-founder of Powerset, Inc., an internet search company that was acquired by Microsoft in 2008 and whose technology was subsequently re-launched as part of Bing. He is the co-founder, chairman and president of Artify It, an internet-based startup that is bringing high-quality contemporary art within the reach of everyone. Thione has also co-founded and helped grow StartOut, a national non-profit organization dedicated to fostering and developing the next generation of entrepreneurs and business leaders within the LGBT community. Thione serves on the board of trustees of StartOut and of several companies in the U.S. and abroad. A native of Milan, Italy, Thione is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. A special thanks to his family, friends and everyone who has been supportive of this amazing and important project and especially to Jay for an amazing artistic, creative and business partnership and friendship.

Director

Stafford Arima

Stafford Arima previously directed Ace at the Globe. He recently directed the revisal of the infamous Broadway musical Carrie (MCC Theater, nominated for five Drama Desk Awards including Outstanding Revival of a Musical and an Outer Critics Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical). His other work includes Altar Boyz (winner of the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Off-Broadway Musical, nominated for seven Drama Desk Awards), Ragtime (West End, nominated for eight Olivier Awards including Best Director), The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea (San Diego Repertory Theatre), The Tin Pan Alley Rag (Roundabout Theatre Company, nominated for an Outer Critics Circle Award as Outstanding Off-Broadway Musical), Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Stratford Shakespeare Festival), Candide (San Francisco Symphony), A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim (Boston Pops), Guys and Dolls (Paper Mill Playhouse), The Secret Garden (World AIDS Day concert), Abyssinia (Goodspeed Musicals), Bowfire (PBS television special), Express Yourself (Broadway Dreams Foundation 2012, Atlanta) and Marry Me a Little (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park). His upcoming project includes Bare (Off Broadway). Mr. Arima graduated from York University in Toronto where he was the recipient of the Dean’s Prize for Excellence in Creative Work. Mr. Arima dedicates his work on Allegiance to his father, Ray Arima, and his Aunts Tak and Tosh and Uncle Mush who were interned in British Columbia, Canada during World War II. www.staffordarima.com.

Choreography

Andrew Palermo

Andrew Palermo previously choreographed the Globe production of Ace. He is the Founding Artistic Director of dre.dance, an American contemporary dance company. In addition to concert dance, Mr. Palermo’s stage direction and choreography credits include Kristin Chenoweth at Carnegie Hall, The Frank Loesser Songbook with New York Philharmonic (Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts), The Mikado (Carnegie Hall), Lyrics & Lyricists (92nd Street Y), The Aluminum Show (international tour), V-Day (Urban Stages), Journey to the West (37 Arts), Great Joy (New Amsterdam Theatre), Esther Demsack (Summer Play Festival/The Public Theater), DanceBreak 2011, Ace (Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis), Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theater), Vices (Theatre Aspen), Elton John and Tim Rice’s Aida (Music Theatre of Wichita), Man of La Mancha (Music Circus), For the Record: Paul Thomas Anderson (Rockwell: Table & Stage), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music), Hairspray (American Musical and Dramatic Academy Los Angeles), She Loves Me (Westminster Choir College) and Hair and The Wild Party (Wichita State University). He is also working on the upcoming Off Broadway production of The Other Josh Cohen.

Music Supervision, Arrangements and Orchestrations

Lynne Shankel

Lynne Shankel was most recently orchestrator and music director for the acclaimed revival of Once on This Island at Paper Mill Playhouse directed by Thomas Kail. Ms. Shankel has written orchestrations and arrangements for the San Francisco Symphony featuring Bonnie Raitt, The Dallas Opera Orchestra featuring George Hearn, Tony Bennett’s famed 80th birthday celebration at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles and the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. She was music director/arranger for the Broadway production of Cry-Baby as well as the resident music supervisor for the Tony Award-winning revival of Company, for which she conducted the Grammy Award-nominated cast album. She was music director/arranger for the Off Broadway hit Altar Boyz, for which she received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Orchestrations. Her other Broadway credits include Disney’s Beauty and the Beast, You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown and The Lion King. Her Off Broadway credits include The Extraordinary Ordinary (Drama Desk nomination for Outstanding Orchestrations) Vanities, Altar Boyz, The Thing About Men and Summer of ’42.

Music Direction

Laura Bergquist

Laura Bergquist music directed the Globe’s production of Jane Austen’s Emma – A Musical Romantic Comedy. She conducted the National Tours of The King and I, Titanic and Miss Saigon and is a frequent guest conductor in regional theatres and clinician in universities and churches. An ASCAP Awards recipient for composition, her personal catalog includes more than 60 works in print and several recordings. Her additional regional work includes Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Rubicon Theatre Company, Northlight Theatre, Lyric Theatre in Oklahoma, Music Theatre of Wichita, Arizona Theatre Company and Cleveland Play House, as well as New York Stage and Film, The Julliard School, New York Musical Theatre Festival, Midtown International Theatre Festival and National Alliance for Musical Theatre. She has been on the teaching faculties of Friends University and New York University at Playwrights Horizon. Her upcoming projects include Paul Gordon and John Caird’s Daddy Long Legs, directed by Caird in London, and Paul Gordon’s Jane Austen’s Emma, directed by Jeff Calhoun on Broadway. Ms. Bergquist resides in New York City with her husband, Joe.

Scenic Design

Donyale Werle

Donyale Werle recently designed the Globe production of Richard O’Brien’s The Rocky Horror Show. She received a 2012 Tony Award for Peter and the Starcatcher on Broadway. Her other Broadway credits include Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (2011 Tony nomination). Her Off Broadway credits include The Taming of the Shrew (Theatre for a New Audience), Peter and the Starcatcher (New York Theatre Workshop, Lucille Lortel Award nomination), Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson (The Public Theater, Lucille Lortel Award, Hewes Design Award, Outer Circle Critics Award nomination), Broke-ology (Lincoln Center Theater) and Jollyship the Whiz-Bang (Ars Nova). Her regional credits include shows at Paper Mill Playhouse and Magic Theatre. She is also a recipient of a 2011 Obie Award. Ms. Werle supports and speaks publicly about sustainable design and is the co-chair of the Pre/Post-Production Committee of the Broadway Green Alliance.

Costume Design

Alejo Vietti

Alejo Vietti has designed the Globe productions of Engaging Shaw, Brighton Beach Memoirs, Broadway Bound and Lost in Yonkers. His New York credits include works for New York City Opera, Manhattan Theatre Club, Primary Stages, MCC Theater, the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes, Irish Repertory Theatre, The New Group, Cherry Lane Theatre, Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, Soho Repertory Theater and The Ensemble Studio Theatre, among others. Regionally, has designed at Alley Theatre (over 18 productions), Arena Stage, Hartford Stage, Long Wharf Theatre, Colorado Ballet, Minnesota Opera, Pasadena Playhouse, Cleveland Play House, Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park, Guthrie Theater, Ford’s Theatre, New York Stage and Film, Williamstown Theatre Festival, Paper Mill Playhouse, Pittsburgh Public Theater, The Repertory Theatre of St. Louis, Signature Theatre Company, Arizona Theatre Company, Goodspeed Musicals, Philadelphia Theatre Company, Barrington Stage Company, The 5th Avenue Theatre, Wolf Trap Opera Company and Opera Santa Barbara, among others. His other work includes Donetsk Opera in Ukraine, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey’s Boom a Ring. His upcoming projects include the Radio City Music Hall Rockettes’ Spring Show. He is a TDF/Irene Sharaff Young Master Award recipient.

Lighting Design

Howell Binkley

Howell Binkley has designed the Broadway productions of Jesus Christ Superstar, How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Daniel Radcliffe (2011 Tony nomination), Lombardi, Million Dollar Quartet, Memphis, West Side Story (2009 Tony nomination), Gypsy starring Patti LuPone, In the Heights (2008 Tony nomination), Jersey Boys (2006 Tony winner), Avenue Q, Minnelli on Minnelli, The Full Monty, Parade, Kiss of the Spider Woman (1993 Tony nomination) and How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying starring Matthew Broderick. Mr. Binkley is also the co-founder of Parsons Dance. He is a five-time Helen Hayes Award recipient and was awarded the 1993 Laurence Olivier Award and Canadian Dora Award for Kiss of the Spider Woman and the 2006 Henry Hewes Design Award, Outer Critics Circle Award and Tony Award for Jersey Boys. Howell teaches master classes in lighting design in multiple undergraduate and graduate arts programs and has created a yearly scholarship and internship opportunity at his alma mater, East Carolina University, for an outstanding student in his beloved field of lighting design.

Sound Design

Jonathan Deans

Jonathan Deans has designs that have spanned from the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden to The Beatles LOVE in Las Vegas. His Broadway credits include Priscilla Queen of the Desert, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, La Cage aux Folles, Young Frankenstein, The Pirate Queen, Lestat, Taboo, Follies, Seussical, The Music Man, Fosse, Parade, Candide and Ragtime. He also recently designed the Off Broadway revival of Carrie. His work with Cirque du Soleil includes LOVE, Viva Elvis, KÀ, Criss Angel Believe, Zumanity, O, Mystère, La Nouba, OVO and Corteo. He has been nominated for Tony and Drama Desk Awards and has been presented with a USITT award for Distinguished Career in Sound. Mr. Deans was born in England where, as a young actor, he was a member of the Royal Shakespeare Company and later went into sound design and designed for over two decades. Mr. Deans now lives in the U.S.

Jan Gist

Jan Gist has been Voice, Speech, and Dialect Coach for Old Globe productions since 2002. She has coached at theatres around the country including Ahmanson Theatre, La Jolla Playhouse, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, The Shakespeare Theatre Company, The American Shakespeare Center, Utah Shakespeare Festival, Alabama Shakespeare Festival, Arena Stage, San Diego Repertory Theatre, Milwaukee Repertory Theater, PlayMakers Repertory Company, Indiana Repertory Theatre, American Players Theatre, and Mo’olelo Performing Arts Company. Ms. Gist has been a guest on KPBS radio’s “A Way with Words,” narrated San Diego Museum of Art documentaries, coached dialects for the film The Rosa Parks Story,and recorded dozens of Books To Listen To. She is an originating member of The Voice and Speech Trainers Association and has presented at many national and international conference workshops for them and for The Voice Foundation. She has taught workshops at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama and the International Voice Teachers Exchange at The Moscow Art Theatre. She has been published in VASTA Journals, and chapters in books include The Complete Vocal Warm-Up, More Stage Dialects, and an interview in Voice and Speech Training in the New Millennium: Conversations with Master Teachers. She is a professor in The Old Globe/USD Graduate Theatre Program. jangistspeaking.com.

Casting

Telsey + Company

Telsey + Company has cast the Broadway productions and Tours of Glengarry Glen Ross, Annie, Chaplin, Bring It On, Evita, Gore Vidal’s The Best Man, Newsies, The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess, Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark, Rock of Ages, Wicked, Sister Act, Jekyll & Hyde, Memphis, Million Dollar Quartet and The Addams Family. Their Off Broadway credits include Bare, Rent, Atlantic Theater Company, MCC Theater and Signature Theatre Company. Regionally they have cast for La Jolla Playhouse and Paper Mill Playhouse. For film they have cast The Odd Life of Timothy Green, Friends with Kids, Joyful Noise, Margin Call, Sex and the City 1 and 2, I Love You Phillip Morris, Rachel Getting Married, Dan in Real Life and Across the Universe. Their television credits include “Smash” and “The Big C.” www.telseyandco.com.

Assistant Stage Manager

Rachel Miller Davis

Rachel Miller Davis is making her Globe debut with Allegiance. Her Broadway credits include West Side Story, LoveMusik, The People in the Picture and The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial. Off Broadway she has worked for The Public Theater/New York Shakespeare Festival, Manhattan Theatre Club, St. Ann’s Warehouse and Women’s Project. Her regional credits include McCarter Theatre Center, Long Wharf Theatre and New York Stage and Film. She has worked at opera houses all over the country including Glimmerglass Opera, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Lyric Opera of Kansas City, New Orleans Opera, Bard SummerScape, Opera Tampa and Opera New Jersey. Love to Brian.

Assistant Stage Manager

Evangeline Rose Whitlock

Evangeline Rose Whitlock has worked regionally on The Scottsboro Boys, A Room with a View, Odyssey and Engaging Shaw (The Old Globe), Limelight: The Story of Charlie Chaplin, HOOVER COMES ALIVE! and A Dram of Drummhicit (La Jolla Playhouse), What is the Cause of Thunder? (Williamstown Theatre Festival) and miXtape (Lamb’s Players Theatre). Stage management for dance: Michigan Ballet Academy, Las Mariposas with Eveoke Dance Theatre (San Diego premiere and Dominican Republic tour), Malashock Dance and Grand Rapids Ballet Company. Ms. Whitlock teaches with Christian Youth Theatre San Diego. She is an avid runner and figure skater and a UC San Diego M.F.A.

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Articles

PLAYBILL BRIEF ENCOUNTER With George Takei, the "Star Trek" Veteran Now Pledging Allegiance in New Musical

Everyone is welcome at this fabulous pre-show mixer for the GLBT community. “Out at the Globe” features a hosted wine and martini bar, scrumptious appetizers and delectable desserts. Admission is only $20 per person (in addition to your theatre ticket). “Out at the Globe” takes place from 6:30 - 7:45 p.m. in one of the Globe’s special event venues — just steps away from your theatre seats.

Call the box office at (619) 23-GLOBE (234-5623) to purchase your tickets, or add “Out at the Globe” nights to your subscription!

The Old Globe and the Japanese American Historical Society of San Diego present a museum exhibit throughout the run of Allegiance about the history of Japanese Americans who lived in San Diego prior to World War II and their removal to the internment camps. The exhibit contains photographs, artifacts and materials about the internment and how it affected San Diego County and its citizens. Located in the San Diego Museum of Man Annex directly adjacent to The Old Globe, the exhibit is free to the public and will be open two hours prior to each performance on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays; from noon to 8 p.m. on Saturdays; from noon to 7 p.m. on Sundays; and from noon to 7 p.m. on Tuesdays as part of Balboa Park's Free Tuesdays.

Wendy Maruyama's large-scale sculptural installation "The Tag Project" features groupings of ID tags resembling those worn by Japanese Americans as they were sent to the internment camps. Approximately 11 feet tall and weighing more than 100 pounds, each grouping contains enough tags to represent every person in one of the 10 U.S. internment camps. The installation features three of the 10 groupings and is located in the upper lobby of the Old Globe Theatre. Admittance to this art exhibit is included in the ticket price to Allegiance and is available for viewing 45 minutes prior to showtime. Additionally, the exhibit will be open to the public on Tuesdays from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.